[Samba] Need some explanation on Samba/NFS locks handle

[Alain.Gorlier at altissemiconductor.com]

>> Quick question: What cross-platform applications are we
>> talking about? It must be apps that access files
>> concurrently from OS/2 and Linux/NFS and get locking right.
>> What is it? The only one that I know of that would do it
>> would be OpenOffice, and this used to have issues with
>> cross-platform locking.

We are talking about internal manufacturing application. 
1000 OS2 clients ! a great number of them would be migrated as Linux NFS 
clients.
The OS2 clients are using the 'sopen' function with deny modes.